This humble college dormitory is an area for undergraduate graduates to learn and train, rest, meet new people, hold crazy dormitory parties, as well as BTC.

Blake Kaufman, a master's degree in market research, called himself a "data expert" and connected an S9 Bitcoin miner to the Bitcoin Internet.

At a bitcoin conference in central Michigan, she won the S9 miner in the raffle and started learning how to use it in time.

In a video chat with Cointelegraph, Blake joked that he knew little about mining before the lottery. At the moment of victory, he ran to the nearest distance and brought a power plug and an Ethernet connection to give it a try, which is his father's company office.

"everyone turned it on and had never heard of S9 before. If you want to know, when they started, they immediately turned to 100%, and everyone was in the house, like-Oh my God-this thing is too noisy! Everyone ran for about two hours, and finally we walked into the company office and found that it was very hot.

This violent and noisy idea kept him awake. Winter is just around the corner in Michigan, and his college offers professional electrical engineering. Why not discover Bitcoin in the dorm and use the waste heat to recycle it? There is a subtle but audible obstacle that must be removed. "how can people deal with noise pollution," he asked.

I just looked it up on the Internet, such as how to cancel the noise on S9, and then popped up this picture of the cooling tower on Pinterest. My father and I were like, 'make us build it. Why not? So we bought a $5 cooling tower on Facebook Marketplace, and we could put the pipe in the attic, and it took us about two hours to drill a hole, and it worked.

The two men built a Bitcoin discovery freezer and now live in Blake's dorm room. He explained that the finished products do not look out of place in all dormitories and are "actually quieter than central air conditioning".

But do university families have regulations that strictly prohibit this kind of thing? Won't the Bitcoin miner, who lacks electricity, have an impact on the university's electrical engineering costs?

As a result, the miner's power is about 900 watts an hour, and the daily output of a mini-refrigerator is about 60 to 100 watts. As a result, he dragged out a lot of electrical projects there. I checked every standard, and it didn't say where bitcoin could not be mined or used by miners. So, if they say you can't do this, I'll say, OK, you don't think I can't.

To put it simply, Blake did not violate all standards. More crucially, a miner is unlikely to cause suspicion in a dorm room at a large university that houses more than a thousand students. It is actually a hymn to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper's famous saying, which sometimes goes like this: "it is better to apologize for a mistake than to ask for approval."

ASIC S9 is now speeding away, and each bitcoin block creates about 0.000001 bitcoins or 100 bitcoins-- the smallest total of bitcoins-- every 10 minutes or so. In terms of currency in circulation, this is equivalent to "about one dollar a day". This is a small figure, but as a student, you can't be dismissive of it.

Blake gradually spent on a freezer and two cables for less than $20, and it's highly likely that he will be able to reuse it many times in the summer.

Blake's next challenge, by the way, is to figure out what to do when the weather gets better and liquid mercury rises. The best summer in Michigan can reach 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 ℃). As a result, the outside temperature will not cool the miners, which is a key part of the miners' work:

"so I have to think of something, maybe put it in a box of ice and then something like this. I don't know.

Blake has long thought about using bitcoin miners to heat their home after graduation. Blake explained that the idea was to test whether he could offset the cost of car gas at home and make it profitable. "this is pessimistic, after all, in Michigan, our own utilities are US $per kwh0.14."

The cost of electricity and heating in Michigan is higher than in energy producing states such as Texas. Using the waste heat generated by bitcoin mining may be a way to offset energy costs.

In fact, the use of Bitcoin miners' devices is a growing trend, especially those who work from home, or are known as "chicken shed miners". The BTC Gandalf of the Braiins sales team told Cointelegraph:

The "chicken nest" miners are the mainstay of the bitcoin Internet hash rate. It's amazing to see that all the different ways they come up with are mine. It brings priceless services at the level of maintaining a decentralized hash rate.

Because he has mastered a lot of Bitcoin expertise, Blake has been trying to get his classmates and even experts and professors to swallow orange pills. Unfortunately, some of them have a strong belief that Bitcoin is a scam. He has responded to this with his own behavior:

"email those teachers and ask them, hey, what are the working hours? Let's have a chat. You can't just stand up and say that Bitcoin is a scam. There is a Bitcoin discoverer in the house.

In addition, S9 roared in his dorm room, contributing to the Internet, which Blake fully supported, and forming 100% "completely free assets."

"in addition to the $30,000 training fee I charge every year, it's also 100% free to experience water and electricity," he joked. "